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Author:

Kirkby, Mandy.

Title:

A Victorian flower dictionary : The language of flowers companion / Mandy Kirkby ; with an introduction by Vanessa Diffenbaugh.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publisher:

Ballantine Books,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

187 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Flower language--Dictionaries.
Flowers--Symbolic aspects--Dictionaries.
Flowers--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.
Flowers--Dictionaries.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Miscellanea.
Arts, Victorian--Miscellanea.
Flowers in literature.
English poetry--19th century.

Other Authors:

Diffenbaugh, Vanessa. Language of flowers.

Notes:

"Originally published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan"--T.p. verso.

Contents:

Fifty Featured Flowers -- The Dictionary -- Flowers for Specific Occasions.

Summary:

Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings-- love or grief, jealousy or devotion. Now modern-day romantics are enjoying a resurgence of this bygone custom. Kirkby shares the historical literary, and cultural significance of flowers.

ISBN:

0345532961
9780345532961
0345532864 (alk. paper)
9780345532862 (alk. paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)730403714

LCCN:

2011034729

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